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Welcome back Rounds Table Listeners! This week Mike and John review clinical aspects of COVID-19 management and review the latest data on treatment options. We hadn’t come up with a Good Stuff item at the time of recording, but since then this incredible video came out of a boy singing the #youcanbeABCs — it is ...

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Welcome back Rounds Table Listeners! This week we sit down with Dr. Shannon Ruzycki, an Internal Medicine Specialist at the Foothills Medical Centre and Clinical Assistant Professor at the Cumming School of Medicine at the University of Calgary. She joins us to share her research and experience in equity, diversity, and inclusion in medicine. You ...

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Welcome back Rounds Table listeners! This week, we are joined by Dr. Alain Tremblay. Dr. Tremblay is a respirologist at the Foothills Medical Centre and a Professor at the Cumming School of Medicine at the University of Calgary. He’s also the local site lead for the CATCO COVID19 treatment trial, which is the Canadian arm of ...

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Welcome back Rounds Table Listeners! This week on the Rounds Table Mike interviews Dr. Peter Jüni, who is the executive lead of the Ontario COVID-19 Science Advisory Table. They discuss the most recent report from the Advisory Table on the role that children play in SARS-CoV2 transmission.     Questions? Comments? Feedback? We’d love to hear ...

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Welcome back Rounds Table Listeners! Just before COVID was starting to take off we had recorded a non-COVID episode on four hematology papers, but we never got around to releasing the episode. Well, better late than never…Four rapid fire papers on hematology topics that have nothing to do with COVID-19! Is an incidental lymphopenia associated ...

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Welcome back Rounds Table Listeners! This week we are going back to our Rapid Fire Format to review two papers looking at potential SARS-CoV-2 vaccines. What is the safety profile and immune system response for a novel SARS-CoV-2 specific vaccine? https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2022483 (1:05-8:44) What is the safety, reactogenicity, and immunogenicity of a viral vectored coronavirus vaccine ...

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Welcome back Rounds Table Listeners! This week we interview Dr. Richard Fralick, a hospitalist at Sunnybrook and public health specialist.He chats with us about the evolution of public health from the 1980s to today through comparing and contrasting the unique challenges of the HIV/AIDS epidemic and COVID-19 pandemic. For more, a seminal paper from NEJM published in ...

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Welcome back Rounds Table Listeners! This week we are going back to our Rapid Fire Format to review two papers looking at new data on treatment options for patients with COVID-19. Is Remdesivir effective in the treatment of COVID-19? https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2007764 Is Lopinavir-ritonavir effective in the treatment of COVID-19? https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2001282   And for The Good Stuff…. ...

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Welcome back Rounds Table Listeners! This week we interview Dr. Donald Arnold, a McMaster University professor and hematologist who is leading the CONCOR-1 trial. The CONvalescent Plasma for COVID-19 Research Trial (CONCOR-1), is a North American clinical trial designed to evaluate the efficacy and safety of COVID-19 convalescent plasma as a therapy for patients with COVID-19 respiratory illness. It involves collecting plasma containing neutralizing antibodies from individuals who ...

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Welcome back Rounds Table Listeners! This week we interviewed Dr. Michelle Sholzberg to discuss coagulopathy associated with COVID-19. Dr. Sholzberg is a clinical hematologist with a focus on bleeding and is the Medical Director of the Coagulation Laboratory at St. Michael’s Hospital in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. She is also the Co-Director of the Hematology-Oncology Clinical ...

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